Ukraine is becoming a supremely well armed nation

Ukraine is fast becoming one of the best armed countries on the planet. First, the Kyiv government has received so many of the West's most advanced weapons that the warfighting equipment sent by Putin for his invasion strategy have failed to cope. All they have managed to do with some success is fire medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles at targets in Ukraine but always from a safe distance across the border in Russia or Belarus or the Black Sea. Second, Ukraine has captured huge quantities of Russian equipment, from tanks and armoured vehicles to rifles and ammunition. In fact the Ukrainian military has been overwhelmed with abandoned tanks. The Russian tank crews have just hopped out and run. Now Nato members are sending loads of air-defence systems and I have no doubt that in the next few months Russian fighter aircraft and comabt helicopters are going to be incraesingly shot out of the sky. Putin now knows for absolutely sure that Nato is not going to back down in supporting Ukraine, so President Zelensky can be confident of making the Russian invasion force suffer. In just seven months Ukraine has been transformed from a medium-ranking military power equipped with mostly old Soviet weaponry, plus some cleverly designed domestic systems, to a seriously competitive nation able to fight off a country which thought it was a military superpower but patently is not.